This summer marks the ten year anniversary of Wisdom Dances. In 2012 I said yes to a leading I could no longer resist and quit my steady job in a hot mess of burnt-out exhaustion. Now I’m grateful to get up every day and continue to learn and serve through Read more…
I’ve been reflecting on the crucial, powerful mystery of joy lately. These are such difficult times, I know joy might feel impossible, frivolous, or inappropriate. But I believe joy is an essential ingredient for cultivating healing and transformation. Joy is happiness for no reason. We are happy when positive things Read more…
We are living in one of the greatest innovation opportunities in human history. The intersecting climate and justice crises are openings to fundamentally change how we collectively do almost everything, an opportunity Jonathan Foley compares to “Bill Gates time 1000.†I really appreciated this framing of the moment. I yearn Read more…
Dear sweet one, I love connecting with you and sharing the process of navigating these times with love. I continue to write less frequently than usual because life is moving at a different pace right now. I am convinced we are all supposed to be moving a little more slowly Read more…
Hello beautiful soul! Happy Interdependence Day! Yes, let’s just re-brand Independence Day. Perhaps because July 4th is my parent’s wedding anniversary, July 4th has always been about being in relationship. I wonder what our communities would be like if we put as much energy into celebrating our interdependence as our Read more…
Hello dear one, Just about everyone I speak with right now is some form of exhausted and overwhelmed. While this can feel like an individual struggle with your particular circumstances, I invite you to be gentle and also see it as a collective experience. That overwhelmed feeling we get from Read more…
The seasons are changing, pandemic restrictions are loosening and there is possibility on the horizon. So what are we going to do now? My newly vaccinated mother just had her first glorious grocery shopping trip in over a year. I’m hoping in a few months I will be able to Read more…
The almost-but-not-quite feeling of the earth preparing for spring is tantalizing. Are you noticing it? We can all sense that there is a light at the end of the tunnel – Spring! Vaccines! – but it is not here yet. The waiting can feel so frustrating. This can also be Read more…
This is my current paradox – perhaps you feel it too? I’m needing vast amounts of rest and I am also growing by leaps and bounds. Sometimes these two impulses feel at cross purposes. It’s very strange to be napping when there is so much to do. Some days I Read more…
Time for a beauty break! Every week I bring water blessed by the Healing Waters Qigong practice group to Lake Hiawatha. As I pause on the shore of the lake my senses come alive. I have felt awed so many times. Most weeks I remember to take a picture and Read more…